Hartley Hassans Walls, New South Wales, Australia
By Geocaching Australia on 22-Apr-11. Waypoint TP5691

Well, I had the wrong spot a few years back, but I finally made it back today to redeem myself.

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Sophoutloud and I needed an excuse to get out of the house so we decided to drive 'Bells Line' to Lithgow and grab a few trigs on the way through. We managed to grab 13 across the day to bump up our trig count significantly. we had a great day out and most of the trigs we found were in great conditions, some even looked like they had a new coat of paint. This one took us a few minutes of looking before we managed to spot the faint triangle and point on the rock. This lookout is still closed due to fires, don't think it will open anytime soon

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Out collecting trigs again, and loving the day we’re having, walking up to here we weren’t sure what we were going to find, then it was eyes to the ground trying to find what we had seen in previous logs. We did one loop and was just starting our second when Outdoornut22 called out!! And there it was still not covered by sand!! Yay

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tftc.

Wow I was about to give up on this 1 – got there in the end – I was thinking it was buried under sand – not at the moment – thanks

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Another trig found, great location again!
TFTC Wilbert67

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Went for a little drive around the Hassans walls road and found me a couple of trigs along the way. Interesting how they have closed off the road for regeneration. I find parks and council usually close off roads for other reasons and pass it off as regeneration. Stuff like historic/heritage sites. I can imagine that if they said it was closed off for those reasons, more people would go visit them. Or theres always the, it's too expensive to make the area safe after a land/rock slide, reason. We get those on the tracks near our river after a lot of rain washes away part of the bank close to the track. After a while you can barely tell there were ever tracks there. A long while of course.

On my way home from the "Hunters in the Mountains" Event at Lake Lyell, and trying to get a few more trigs as well.
Walked on up past a sign, saying that the area is closed for "Revegetation", but evidence on of that on the track to the damaged shelter, so wasn't too worried. I did take a photo of the trig plug @ 1500, bit it seemed to be a marbled buried in the sandstone, and seemed to be an anomaly. On going back to the car, and checking GSAK I found that that was the spot, and on going back realised that there is a very faint triangle around it (the carved out glass).

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On return to the GeoReindeer following the walk out to Cooerwull it was a surprise to find another closeby trig listed on the Garmin. It was not til back home and ready to log did it become apparent why Hartley is overlooked ... hidden behind the GC High Spot cache on the map.

An afternoon's sunshine helped with the find, the faint outline shadowed within the white stony surrounds.

'tis 4 years since the last to find ... that must be up there with the rare ones.

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last trig of the day with pjmpjm. This was a last minute decision and while I thought I had the coords with me, I did not. So after a fruitless search, pjmpjm decided to PAF, and just then he said, "there it is!" he was standing on top of it.
Truth be told we both had walked on it several time, the carved triangle is somewhat indistinct, but can be readily seen with the drill hole in the center.
What can you say, we are both old and the light was fading, anyway that's our story and we are sticking to it.

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Found together with rogerw3.

We walked past it about three times before spotting it!

Not that hard to see, I guess, but possibly a bit indistinct to two older guys as dusk settled on Hassans Walls.

But really, we walked right over the top of it and just missed it!

Good to get this intriguing little remnant logged . . .

And very beautiful views out over the valleys . . .

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At the listed co-ordinates on the ground is an area of concrete inscribed with a triangle and a hole at its centre.

A nice walk up to the old lookout, but take care around here.

alnic39

Found on a wet & windy day, still impressive views though

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